Chicken Wire Fish Trap

Lace the cut ends of the chicken wire to the 9 gauge wire.

Chicken wire fish trap.

First get all your building materials to erect a brand new fish trap. A trap to catch fish in a s l a e. Trap door made from 9 ga. Form the wire around the square piece of chicken wire.

A typical contemporary trap consists of a frame of thick steel wire in the shape of a heart with chicken wire stretched around it. Insert a bent wire over the wire edge of the trap and into the ground. When a fish swims inside through this opening it cannot get out as the chicken wire opening bends back into its original narrowness. For suckers or carp poultry netting chicken wire is less expensive.

Catch tons of catfish bait with slim jims store live bait in keepnet portable live well duration. Gate frame is made from 9 ga. Trap door fastened to gate frame with pig rings so that it swings freely. Cut a 7 inch square piece of chicken wire for a door.

Wire 7 1 2 square and laced to cut opening of throat 2. Always maintain your traps in the best condition possible place them in fishspawning grounds and always use an appropriate bait for optimal results. With a good chicken wire fish trap you are guaranteed of at least one eating size fishafter every 24 hours you can even get more if you set up bigger traps. Cutting and tying now select a good location for your trap.

200 poles about 7 8 feet in length d. A pair of pliers. Set the trap by driving the support sticks into the ground along a line at 1 foot intervals. The choice then is the mesh size determined by the size of fish you are trapping.

Make fish removal door and install throats. I roll chicken wire 6 feet wide for heart c. Repeat this step all the way around the trap to secure it to the ground. Fish in the trap.

Catfish and carp 770 198 views. Place the open side of the trap over the sticks. For bait minnows a hardware cloth in 1 4 or 1 2 inch 0 6 or 1 3 cm mesh is fine. 1 roll chicken wire 4 feet wide for tail b.

2 or 3 rolls tying wire.